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The EU Migrant Generation in Asia : Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities /
Drawing on a comparative study with individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in 2010s, this book demonstrates how migration to Asian business centres has become an alternative to a middle-class life in Europe and how the perceived insecurities of life in the crisis-ridden EU result in these m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Global migration and social change.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Series information
- The Eu Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Series Preface
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- Notes on the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Spatial Mobility to Asia:
- 1 The EU Generation and Their Migration Motivations
- Intra-European mobility and educational migration
- Transition to the labour market in the post-Lehman shock European free-movement space
- Class in migration
- The migration aspirations of the EU Generation: manifestations of privilege and precarity
- The EU Generation's motivations: a typology
- Lifestyle seekers
- Cultural enthusiasts
- Global professionals
- Precarious movers
- Mobility capital in patterns of privileged and precarious migration
- 2 Destination Singapore
- Modern Singapore: state-led development towards a global city-state
- Nation building: crafting Singaporeans through social engineering
- Postcolonial diversities and the migration regime
- Legal and institutional framework for migration: the case of the EU generation
- 3 Global City Tokyo
- Tokyo: economic and political centre of Japan, global city and port of opportunities
- Japanese and Others: constructions of difference inside and outside the Japanese nation
- Contested, denied, welcome: immigration to Japan and Tokyo's foreign face
- Legal and institutional framework for migration: the EU Generation as labour migrants
- Conclusion
- Part II Organisational and Career Mobility: Seizing Security, Success and Self-Realisation
- 4 Singapore
- The expat without (the expat) perks
- Upward career mobility of middle-class migrants: the boundaryless career
- Entrepreneurial self-making
- Boundaryless careers in a tightening migration regime
- 5 Tokyo
- The pinnacle of Japaneseness: (un)becoming "seishain" of a Japanese firm
- SMEs in innovative industries: trading stability with flexibility
- Foreign firms: global talent factories?
- Mobilities across the segmented labour market
- 6 Career Trajectories through an Intersectional Lens
- The actionability and limits of European whiteness in the professional context
- Ang mohs in the Singaporean labour market: firm-ownership matters
- Tokyo: the paradox of the White fetish and the denial of White privilege
- Gendered (im)mobilities in the competitive workplace
- Singapore: embracing new career opportunities, confronting old gendered obstacles
- Token women and token men: navigating gender roles in the Japanese internal labour market
- Conclusion
- Part III (Im)Mobility through Differentiated Embedding: The Ties That Bind
- 7 Immobility and Emplacement: Making the City Home
- Mobile professionals in Singapore's heartlands
- Relational embedding through networks of mobility